Sunday sketch #63

I’ve done very little sketching lately. And when I say ‘very little’, I mean ‘absolutely none’. A combination of work, travel…and work travel hasn’t left me much time for quilt-related stuff. But luckily I’ve got extra sketches from awhile back that I can pull out when I need to!

I tried a few different herringbone-like designs a few weeks ago, and here are another two:

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #63-1

Is it still a herringbone design if the stripes point only in one direction?

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #63-2

These designs could be made by cutting stripes at an angle, or by piecing together each stripe from multiple half-rectangle triangles.

 

 

Sunday sketch #62

Part of what kept me interested in last week’s sketch is the odd perspective — on the left, the top of the zig-zags is in full view; on the right, it’s the bottom. That sort of unnatural, confusing perspective makes me look at the design again and again.

I haven’t played with perspective much yet, so this might be an area I delve into a little more. This week’s sketch is based on a quick doodle that I made of an apartment building façade in Melbourne awhile back; I found it on the back of a receipt when cleaning out my wallet recently.

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #61-1

I like how rotating the sketch gives an entirely new look — a new perspective — to the design:

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #61-2

Or even…

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #61-3

If you were brave enough to try a Y-seam, this design could be made into a quilt pattern by combining a triangle and two right trapezoids. Otherwise, you could just use two rectangles, one half-square triangle and one 2:1 half-rectangle triangle per block.

 

Sunday sketch #61

I haven’t done much sketching in awhile. I’m not sure if I’m in a bit of a slump, or if I’ve just been overwhelmed with other stuff – work, life, more work, etc. Probably a bit of both.

So here’s a design I sketched a few weeks ago. I set it aside because I wanted to work on it some more… maybe add a second colour on the other side of those crinkly shapes, maybe work on the angles a little. If I get around to developing it a bit more, I’ll post that too.

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #61

To translate this sketch into a quilt, you could combine lots of strips (pieced together at an angle, not unlike last week‘s design) or use triangles, rectangles and squares. The 6 crinkly shapes are made up of multiple copies of a single repeating unit (2 x 4 squares in the sketch), so another approach could be to chain-piece a bunch of them instead.